Selector was the trademark for Bezembinder from Breda (Holland) during the 1930's. The company produced quality button-filler and piston-filler fountain pens.

Selector 80 - jade green, button filler, 13.5 cm, Netherlands, 1930's

Fridia, piston filler. I do not know anything about this brand pens, but its materials and workmanship are very good quality.

My Greif's:

I have one similar to that shown here pen - cracked blue-green ice, branded Helm /Montblanc sub brand???/. It has a button filler with black hard rubber blind cap.

I have many Luxor pens, but now only found these two pictures:

Luxor Teleskop, piston filler

Today I received this pen from Germany - Azura 15 by Kaweco.

Duofold style jade pens - Uhlmann Eterno, Selector and Azura:

Reform 629, lady size, button filler:

These are the photos that I found, but I have other pens that do not have pictures.

Here you can see many models:

http://www.fountainp...li-stylographs/

The vintage Tintenkuli's are made of very nice celluloid's. I have many of them in different colors.

I made photos with information from the book МТ&Co, but I can not show them here because they are large. If you want, I can send them an e-mail. This is 142/31 model, from USA, late 20's. The pen is not in good condition, but is subject to restoration.

Soon I bought one pen Osmia from France. It has no inscription of the body - I guess that disappeared with time, but there are number - 226 at the end of the barrel. The nib is not genuine.

Album: Osmia

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This is certainly a pen before the war. I think this is a later version of the button filler Osmia's - about 1935 and shortly thereafter.

Here is an older version - Lapis Osmia Minor, Parker Duofold Streamline style - 1932-35:

This pen is Streamline style - 1932-35. There are Osmia flat top Duofold style - 1930-32. I think your pen is later. After 1935. I have two or three with only one ring - black and pearl and black.

"Barrel threads are worn and the cap doesn't secure"

I have several pens with a similar problem. Is it possible to fix it? If you put a transparent celluloid and make a new thread?

I guess these pens labeled Milan they were earlier, but postwar. Differences with my pens are wide cap lip to the rings, inscription Milano, the nib section - old version and green ink window. I think this nib is was made in Germany - original, italic type. Later nibs are manufactured in Italy - for example CN with heart hole and some gold with Italian label.

http://www.thepengui...kan_history.jsp quote:

"Foreign production was also resumed, this time only in Milan and using old equipment for the manufacture of hard rubber pens imported presumably from Hannover. Over the next few years, Milan produced not just pre-war pens, but a number of variants. Some of the most interesting of these pens were 100N pocket and desk pens made without a Binde. The colored celluloid was integral to the barrel and not an overlaid band as had been the case with virtually every Pelikan made up to that time. The nibs and clips were also unique to the facility. Production in Milan did not last long, however, due to quality issues. Today, the immediate postwar Milan pens are highly valued by many of the more compulsive Pelikan collectors."

This is Pelikan 100N from Milan factory in Italy, after 1947. The barrel made of solid marble-green celluloid.

I found pictures of a pen, also bought from Italy. i put the pen somewhere and now I can not find her. It has no inscription and logo on the cap. The nib is not Pelikan. Is shown for comparison to German pen. Cap of German can be used in Italian. The pump is the same.

These are interesting pens. I think they are more successful than the German model, because there are no problems with crystallization of the end of the barrel and a fracture of celluloid sleeve.Thus were made new special editions M101N. Similar exist in databases in penboard.de with better pictures.

http://penboard.de/s...ian&db_seller=0

I found it in Italy. I have also desk pen, which is similar:

Very interesting pen, but is sold in the United States.
http://www.ebay.com/...=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Sad,,, R.I.P.

This pen looks like your:

It looks like a French pen. There are many safety pens produced in this color from different producers - small and anonymous. Typical of French pens that have nibs of 18 carat gold.